vmware (vmnet is not loaded) issue after kernel update

marc gmane at auxbuss.com
Mon Jun 23 18:49:03 UTC 2008


Derek Broughton said...
> marc wrote:
> 
> > Just ran aptitude update on Gutsy which installed a new kernel[1]:
> 
> > After reboot, as usual for vmware, I ran:
> > 
> >   sudo vmware-config-network.pl
> ... 
> > So, I tried:
> > 
> >   sudo aptitude reinstall vmware-server
> > 
> > but this fails[2].
> > 
> > Any ideas?
>  
> Try dpkg-reconfigure, and if that doesn't do the job, purging and then
> installing vmware.  Also, you can look in /var/lib/dpkg/info/vmware* to see
> what the postinst scripts usually do.

dpkg-reconfigure complained that the package wasn't completely 
installed. And installation fails.

Thus, purged, but still the installation failed.

So, I rebooted into the old kernel (Ubuntu 7.10, kernel
2.6.22-14-generic), installed, and vmware server worked fine.

Seems like 

  vmware-server-kernel-modules

still depends on:

  vmware-server-kernel-modules-2.6.22-14

and there is no sign of:
  
  vmware-server-kernel-modules-2.6.22-15

since installing on 22-15 simply pulls in the above for 22-14.

Odd that no-one else is having the same problem, though.

-- 
Cheers,
Marc





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